About Ken Tumin

Ken Tumin founded the Bank Deals Blog in 2005 and has been passionately covering the best deposit deals ever since. He is frequently referenced by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications as a top expert, but he is first and foremost a fellow deal seeker and member of the wonderful community of savers that frequents DepositAccounts.


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Bank Deals Blog: Bank Health

Emigrant Bank Acquires Florida Bank And Converts To A Florida Charter
Emigrant Bank Acquires Florida Bank And Converts To A Florida Charter

If you’re a customer of Emigrant Bank or one of its three online divisions, you may have noticed an odd change at Emigrant Bank. Its FDIC Certificate number changed from 12054 to 57083. This happened due to Florida-based Plus International Bank acquiring Emigrant Bank on October 1, 2023. After the acquisition, Plus International Bank changed its name to Emigrant Bank. This is how the transactions were documented by the FDIC. In reality, Emigrant Bank (which had $6.4 billion in assets before this merger) acquired Plus International Bank (which had only...

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A Small Kansas Bank Is Fourth Bank To Fail In 2023

Kansas state regulators closed Heartland Tri-State Bank on Friday, July 28th. This is the fourth bank to fail in 2023. Unlike the first three failed banks, Heartland Tri-State Bank was small, with four branches and assets of $139 million. As a comparison, the first three banks that failed this year each had assets over $100 billion. Friday’s bank failure is a return to the typical bank failure that occasionally took place since the 2008 financial crisis. The large majority of the banks that failed during this time were small community...

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Bank & Credit Union Health Grades Updated from Latest Data (2023 Q1)

The FDIC and NCUA have released their reports of the first quarter health of the institutions they insure. They also released the 2023 First Quarter Call Reports of all institutions they insure. We use these reports to derive our financial health grades for each institution.

The FDIC release occurred on May 31st, and the NCUA release occurred on June 8th. As of last week, we have finished importing this data, and all of the health grades for banks and credit unions have been updated to reflect the March 31, 2023 reports.

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First Republic Bank Fails and Is Acquired by Chase - Impact on Depositors

First Republic Bank overtook Silicon Valley Bank as the second largest bank failure in U.S. history. The FDIC agents worked over the weekend to finalize the terms of a purchase, and early Monday morning, the FDIC announced that “To protect depositors, the FDIC is entering into a purchase and assumption agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Columbus, Ohio, to assume all of the deposits and substantially all of the assets of First Republic Bank.” With $229.1 billion in assets, First Republic Bank was just larger than the $209.0 billion...

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Silicon Valley Bank Is Shut Down - Second Largest Bank Failure in History
Update 3/12/23: The FDIC just announced in this press release that there will be no losses to uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank. According to the press release, "Depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13." The FDIC also announced the closure of Signature Bank, New York, NY with a similar protection of all deposits. I'll have more details on Monday.

After more than two years without a bank failure, regulators closed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on Friday. SVB was the 16th largest bank in...

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Bank Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic - Updates from 2021 Q2 Data

Last week, the FDIC and NCUA released their reports of the second quarter health of the institutions they insure. They also released the 2021 Second Quarter Call Reports of all insured institutions. We use these reports to derive our financial health grades for each institution. We have finished importing this data, and all of the health grades for banks and credit unions have been updated to reflect the June 30, 2021 reports.

You can view the latest health ratings of your bank or credit union in our Bank Health...

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DepositAccounts Releases Annual Top200 Bank & Credit Union Lists

DepositAccounts.com has released its list of the 2021 Top 200 Healthiest Banks and Credit Unions in America.

DepositAccounts.com evaluates the financial health of federally-insured banks and credit unions in the United States once per quarter and has been tracking healthy institutions since 2010. To determine bank ranking and recognition, DepositAccounts.com grades each institution on a number of factors, including capitalization, deposit growth, and loan-to-reserve ratios.

For a complete listing of the 2021 Top 200 Healthiest Banks and Credit Unions in America, visit https://www.depositaccounts.com/banks/health.aspx.

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Bank Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic - Updates from 2021 Q1 Data

In the last month, the FDIC and NCUA released their reports of the first quarter health of the institutions they insure. They also released the 2021 First Quarter Call Reports of all insured institutions. We use these reports to derive our financial health grades for each institution. We have finished importing this data, and all of the health grades for banks and credit unions have been updated to reflect the Mach 31, 2021 reports.

You can view the latest health ratings of your bank or credit union in our...

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Bank Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic - Updates from 2020 Q4 Data

In the last month, the FDIC and NCUA released their reports of the fourth quarter health of the institutions they insure. They also released the 2020 Fourth Quarter Call Reports of all insured institutions. We use these reports to derive our financial health grades for each institution. We have finished importing this data, and all of the health grades for banks and credit unions have been updated to reflect the December 31, 2020 reports.

You can view the latest health ratings of your bank or credit union in our...

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FTC Bans Beam Financial from Mobile Banking

The financial technology company (fintech) known as Beam that offered a high-yield bank account via its mobile app is banned from offering banking services. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just announced the settlement it reached with Beam Financial. According to the FTC press release:

Concerns started to build at Beam last September when DA readers posted problems that they had in withdrawing their money from Beam. In October, news of these issues were published by CNBC. In my October blog post, I reviewed these issues and my concerns about how Beam...

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